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R: Load species traits from Turboveg reference list

tv.traits

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Load species traits from Turboveg reference list

Description

Loading Turboveg ecodbase or any other specified dBase file in this directory and do basic data evaluation. Empty columns are eliminated.

Usage

tv.traits(db, trait.db = 'ecodbase.dbf', refl, ...)

Arguments

`db`	Path name to the Turboveg database directory
`trait.db`	Name of species trait DBase file, default is 'ecodbase'
`refl`	Name of the taxonomic reference list, if veg is not loaded with tv.veg
`...`	additional arguments for tv.traits

Details

You can use the final output line to make a summary statistic for attributes with potentially misleading '0' values. Just delete the " at beginning and end.

Value

data.frame of ecological traits, see metainfo(refl, eco=TRUE).

Author(s)

Florian Jansen jansen@uni-greifswald.de

Examples

## Not run: 
veg <- tv.veg('elbaue', cover.transform='pa')
# mEIV <- meanTraits('OEK_F', veg, 'ecodbase.dbf')
site <- tv.site('elbaue')
# plot(site$MGL, mEIV)

## End(Not run)